[Worship] June 5 2019 Minutes of Worship & Music Committee

Fri Jun 14 08:32:09 CDT 2019

Minutes for June 5,  2019  Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

In Attendance:  Adeline Bailey, Peg Clifford, Kat Hawbaker, Martha McGovern

Deadline for combined July-August Confluence is June 18.

  1.. Minutes of May meeting were approved. 
  2.. Correspondence:  Martha has sent thank you notes to the guest speakers. 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team:   Set-up for June 16 will be done after Community Meal on 6/14. 
    2.. Special Music Team:  Choir will sing on June 16. 
    3.. Worship Associates Team:  Kat and Jim Rapp will arrange a refresher for WAs. 
    4.. Piano Task Force: Suzyn has arranged for Joe Baker to facilitate transport of electronic piano to Social Hall for the summer. 
    5.. Technology Task Force: Jim Grecni is willing to work with Mike and Ralph to raise the level of the television for visibility to all in the sanctuary.  Martha will facilitate their communication.
Kat reflected on power of Thinking Like a Film Maker by Marcia McFee and suggested the development of AV presentations for key services throughout the year.  Suggested names:  Cynthia Ting, Jimmy and Lyndsey Bennett.

    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:  Add Dawn Widener to list.
  3.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds: Martha reported that B & G is aware of concerns about the lift and is looking into solutions. 
  4.. Expenditures:  Donation of $500 to Multicultural Festival was approved by the  Board.  Gene Barry has been reimbursed for transportation costs for Farmer Tantoh ($280.41). 
  5.. Budget Proposal - how the proposed budget for 2019-2020 aligns with what was approved. 
  6.. Outside Greeters - The W & M Committee recommended that Membership Committee add greeters outside in order to identify need for the lift and to facilitate its use.  Adeline reported that they don't feel they have the people to do so.  Roger Kalter and the Safety Team will be brought into the discussion.  The Committee also identified the  need for a "lift orientation" so that all Worship Associates and Greeters are familiar with how to operate the lift.  Action plan?? 
  7.. New Theme for 2019-2020:  How do we address the paradox of "We"?  
The Committee had a lively and clarifying discussion of the meaning of the theme question.  The discussion included examination of the concepts individualist/collectivist and the Self.

  9.. Services for  April - August:  
·        clarification of various service/outreach activities of the local congregation and endeavors with UUA, UUSC, etc. and their relationship with FUUSM principles, mission

Need for tracking and regular reporting? For example in Finance Committee records and Annual Meeting  report??   Do our church finances align with our mission?

·        Katy McDaniel - Dark Tourism (responsibility of deity or humans?)  Martha is awaiting response.  Other date in September?

·        Consolidation reflection for services related to theme for 2018-19 - Kat end of August

·        On the day of the Planetarium visit, the topic for the Cozy Conversation will be the theme question for 2018-19:  How can we inspire leaders for a complex world?  BRIDGES has identified August 18 or 25 for the Planetarium.

·        Possible speakers:  Robin Bozian, artists: Cynthis Ting, Dani, Morgan/Owen

·        Workshop service:  prayer flags - Kat and Peg will take the lead on the service; Jane Tumas-Serna is willing to help.  

·        Mind maps may help the congregation identify how they are active in FUUSM efforts/activities and what additional options they would like.

  10.. Theme for Year 2018-2019:  "How can we inspire leaders for a complex world?"  [Try inductive approach and re-cap]
The Committee agreed to use #592 The Free Mind by William Ellery Channing as the guiding reading for the thematic year.

 2019

May

            5  [no Kat]  That Our Lives May Be Works of Art   WL: Martha McGovern  WA:Suzyn Mills

            12        Kat  (Mothers Day)  Different Voices & Different Roles               WA: Tabatha Hubbard

            19        Kat   I Am Farmer -- Farmer Tantoh of SYFA                         WA: Gene Barry

            26        Kat   Memorial Day                                                                  WA:  Chris Jacobs

June

June 1 & 2 - Yard Sale           

            2          Kat - Flower Communion                                             WA: Jim Rapp  (+Tabatha Hubbard)

            9          Kat - "Stonewall doesn't Mean Jackson"                     WA:  Andrew Clovis                            

            16        Kat - (Fathers Day) Faith of Our Fathers             WA:  Martha McGovern Plant Sale

            23        Kat - FUUSM Picnic at Multicultural Festival    WA:  

30        Kat - play taped service from General Assembly           WA:  

July

            7          Kat - Katy McDaniel "Partisanship or Partnership?"     WA: Jim Rapp                  [Soc Justice]

            14        Kat -                                                                            WA: Dawn Hewitt

            21        Kat -                                                                            WA:

            28        Kat & Stassa  - "Interfaith & India"                              WA:

August

            4          Kat                                                                              WA:  Jane Tumas-Serna  [Soc Justice]

11        Kat                                                                              WA:  Martha McGovern

Paradox of "We" - Becky Wright is willing to teach dance that illustrates the concept.  

            (306 Fifth Street)   Idea for TRANSITION service:  "Who Is the Leader in the Dance of 

            'We'"?  (740) 373-2132  oreo1506 at suddenlink.net  306 Fifth Street

            18        "Humor with a Punch" (Kat, Martha, Peg) or Planetarium & Cozy Conversation (Peg,Martha)

            25        "Humor with a Punch" (Kat, Martha, Peg) or Planetarium & Cozy Conversation (Peg, Martha)

September

            1          Kat -- Labor Day

            8          Kat -- Water Ingathering

            15        Katy?

Pig Roast 9/21

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Possible Topics and speakers for future services:  

Rancho Mirage Writers Festival (published on February 17, 2017) - Questions from Bret 

            Stephens:  

Are we a country that seeks and attracts human capital and believes in being fundamentally open 

to the world?  Are we a self-critical country or a country of blamers?  Do we define our interests 

according to our values or vice versa?  Do we have a healthy innovation culture?  Do we have a 

healthy civic culture?  Are we still a nation of optimists?  What are our attitudes toward

foreigners, failure, global leadership, change, each other?

Touchstone REACH Packet, Hungry Town, multiple intelligences with additional one - existential-spiritual, powerful children's stories, ages of women, This I Believe, family stories as carriers of family values, June Teenth celebration, reflections of people who grew up in UU congregation (Jay Phillips, Mike Bailey, Dean Banziger), Bill Bauer and Peg Clifford on suicide and kindness,  reflections of former ministers, Living Mindfully - Prepare for the Unexpected (Robin Bozian, Anita Newhart, Sue Montera, Virginia Mayle), Quill as a storyteller, Quakers on consensus, morality of artificial intelligence. 

Hal Walker - Suzyn     Michael Dowd - Adeline  -- perhaps in 2018  -- See email with update.

Catherine Roma - Kat 

            Peg Clifford - What does democracy look like to whom?, We are all brothers (Day of the Dead), 

                        5 words for learning in Hebrew, immigration - world map of our origins

                        Cooperation with other churches - bus trip to African-American Museum in DC or 

                        Underground Railroad in Cincinnati

            Protest - contrast burning cross & burning flag  (Barb Kidd)

            Diversity: awareness of brain injury - (Beverly Bradley)

            Summer Institute:  Encouraging attendance, using resources  e.g., Non-Violent Communication 

Attention to awareness of previous residents on land in our area and need for our light presence

Peg Clifford - "Where did I come from & why?" testimonials from members/friends

Visual Arts (social justice, spirituality)

Shelley Graffs - Singing in Sacred Circle, etc.  graffs at cinci.rr.com

Trauma-Informed Care/ Trauma-Informed Schools

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